The Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related fundamental or applied knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes. It supports research projects proposed and conducted by individual researchers or groups of researchers, at any career stage, in all areas of health. The best ideas may stem from new, incremental, innovative, and/or high-risk lines of inquiry; or knowledge translation approaches.

• Worker exposure at indoor illicit drug inhalation and overdose prevention sites

• Impact of fuel selection during live fire training on firefighter exposures to carcinogens

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Enable researchers to generate preliminary data or evidence necessary to demonstrate feasibility of new and innovative technologies for testing and monitoring of outbreaks and next-generation interventions;
• Support researchers in pursuing high-risk, high-reward research questions which have the potential to generate novel, innovative and high impact results to address persistent challenges in HIV/AIDS and STBBI for key populations in Canada and globally; and
• Stimulate innovation in HIV/AIDS and STBBI research by promoting cross-disciplinary research collaborations.

Connection Grants are expected to respond to the objectives of the Research Partnerships program.

These grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. These events and activities represent opportunities to exchange knowledge and engage with participants on research issues they value. Events and outreach activities funded by a Connection Grant can often serve as a first step toward more comprehensive and longer-term projects.

Connection Grants support workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes or other events or outreach activities that facilitate:

• disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary exchanges in the social sciences and humanities;
• scholarly exchanges between those working in the social sciences and humanities and those working in other research fields;
• intersectoral exchanges between academic researchers in the social sciences and humanities and researchers and practitioners from the public, private and/or not-for-profit sectors; and/or
• international research collaboration and scholarly exchanges with researchers, students and non-academic partners from other countries.

Brain Canada and the Alzheimer Society of Canada are pleased to announce the launch of the 2024 Knowledge Translation and Exchange (KTE) Accelerator Grants!  

The purpose of the KTE Accelerator Grant program is to help accelerate the dissemination of scientific findings on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias to various audiences beyond academic researchers. 

KTE Accelerator Grants are designed to stimulate innovative and outside-the-box ideas that ensure research translates into implementation and eventually, impact. These grants provide researchers and trainees with the funding needed to develop KTE products relevant to their work in the field of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.  

Brain Canada and the Alzheimer Society of Canada have allocated $200,000 CAD to this program. Total grant amounts are flexible to accommodate the needs required to produce a range of KTE products, but the minimum budget allowed is $5,000 CAD and the total budget cannot surpass $100,000 CAD. 

Who can apply? 

• Current and past Alzheimer Society Research Program grant and award recipients 

• Current and past recipients of a Brain Canada funded grant focused on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias research 

• Principal Investigators that are current members of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA) 

How to apply 

Click here to view the Request for Applications.  

Click here to view the Application Requirements. 

Application deadline: August 9, 2024, 5:00 p.m. EDT 

Should you have any questions, please contact research@alzheimer.ca.

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund Climate and Health Interdisciplinary Award provides support for collaborative exploratory work that opens new ground for comprehensively assessing or mitigating the impacts of climate change on human health. This program will support both individual scientists and multi-investigator teams. Early career faculty and postdoctoral fellows nearing their transition to independence are especially encouraged to apply, whether individually or within teams.

Our goal is to prime new discoveries in areas that are difficult to reach through discipline-specific, silo-driven approaches. Through this program, we will provide flexible funding for conceiving and piloting work that will grow into productive and informative collaborations among researchers approaching connected questions from fields that usually do not interact.

For more information, please contact Jill Sherman at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca.

The Forest Sector Investment and Innovation Program provides funding for strategic investments in the forest sector that:

• enhance competitiveness
• support new market access
• provide benefits to Ontario’s broader forest sector
• strengthen regional economies

The Canadian Science Policy Centre (CSPC) is pleased to announce that the competition for the Science Policy Youth Awards is now open. CSPC is committed to building capacity and empowering the next generation of scientists and policy-makers, to develop their expertise and be able to showcase their talent. We encourage all of you below 35 years of age from any discipline, any sector and at any stage of your profession to apply for this award. This award recognizes an individual under the age of 35 who proposes an innovative and compelling evidence-based policy proposal that will make a positive impact to Canadian society, economy, and/or environment.